Uganda. East Africa. Jesus. Family. Coffee.
Uganda
Joined January 2024
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My main take away from the past 3 weeks with a broken ankle is how very kind people are. Don’t be weighed down by the cynicism of headlines and online ugliness. When we give kindness, and receive it in our turn, we are stepping into what we were made for. It’s a strong antidote.
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Evangelical Christianity in the United States is often characterized by a deep desire to have “Christianity” pervade our culture but not have Christ permeate our being.
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Our current, algorithm driven discourse makes it tougher to pastor people.
I find myself in meetings with people who don’t read books & are being informed SOLELY by content generated for clicks.
And I’m running low on winsome ways to say “that’s stupid. libraries are free.”
It involves childhood abuse, working with the FBI and Canadian Royal Mounted Police to stop a child trafficking and p*rn ring in Uganda, near death experiences in the Amazon & Africa, miracles, demonic attacks, and my own brokenness causing me to hurt the ones I love.
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2,000 years after it was first asked, the question, “And who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29) is one of the simplest ways to assess the degree to which we take the teachings of Jesus seriously.
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When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -- Abraham Heschel
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Thank God for the pastors he sends us. Some minister to us for years, some for decades.
Some leave our congregations for another. Others retire or die while in office.
But, dear Lord, let us never forget why they are there: they are the Spirit’s mouth, the proclaimers of his word.
The church is not about them, their personalities, their charisma, their wisdom or scholarship. Their anonymity or fame means zilch.
They are fellow mortals, fellow sinners, co-priests with all the baptized. One day mortality will overtake them. Others will take their place.
But the word they preach, it abides forever.
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Sober-minded,
self-controlled,
respectable,
not violent but gentle,
not quarrelsome.
Note how many elder qualifications focus on what some—even Christans—have called weak.
It isn't so. Pursue these whether you aspire to eldership or not.
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Driven by far right conspiracy theories and fearing a migrant “invasion” , 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius drove to
El Paso, Texas and murdered 23 people in a Walmart 8/3/2019. The shooting was the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history.
Lies have consequences.
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In 1995, there were 500 Christians in Iran. In 2024, there are over 1,000,000 Christians in Iran. The Iranian Christians are sharing their faith. Personal evangelism has always been Jesus' plan A to reach the world. – at Yeonsu-gu, Republic of Korea
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Theology 101: “If the Gospel required the potentates of this world for its planting and preservation, God would not have committed it to fishermen.” (Luther)